The Climate Justice Approach
Anthropocentric tinkering with the climate has been portrayed as 'climate change', as though the Western/ized induced forcing was a whim of the self-same climate.
Moreover, such a perspective is perilous insofar as if fails to orient climate politics towards a long-term solution. Rather, plans for short-term adaptation are the order of the day. This strategy, furthermore, keeps us stuck to the developmental paradigm.
Ruth Thomas-Pellicer and Miriam Pepper present the terms of a climate treaty, A Jubilee for Climate Justice, that are not even considered in climate negotiations.In keeping with Biblical Jubilee prescriptions, we propose to render all countries sovereign of their lands and 'resources'. This entails the cancelation of the financial strangulation that the North exerts upon the South. The existence of such a strangulation is just a fantasy of the North --the terms interestedly spoken by Northern countries.
Contrastingly, if we undertake an embodiing perspective, we realize that Northern countries have gained their advantageous financial situation by repeatedly plundering Southern ones. Namely, Northern countries have contracted both an ecological and an embodied debt with Southern ones.
The time is high to undo these ecocidal links. This is the proposal of our Jubilee for Climate Justice.
EcoPaxMundiAgoreans Endorse Vegeterianism and Localization
The revision of our daily habits stands high on the agenda of the EcoPaxMundiAgorean. EcoPaxMundiAgorans, to be sure, love the whole of creation and the creatures both so-called animate and inanimate that live therein. That is why we aim at neither managing nor standing above Tellus, Mother Earth. Rather, our true vocation is that of becoming good co-stewards of Hers.EcoPaxMundiAgoreans oppose the cruelty, exploitation and dehumanization exerted upon animals that are raised to feed the human being who can afford the costs of industrial meat production precisely because, as ecological economists render us aware, these costs are utterly externalized from the ecocyles that meat production systematically disembodies. Indeed, the reader should be reminded of the fact that meat production is coupled with a devastating ecological footprint upon the land, the seas and the fresh-water hydraulic cycle.
On the other hand, EcoPaxMundiAgora.Org conceives as no wrongdoing raising hens, cocks, cattle, you name it, in a friendly manner --as they were pets, that is-- and thanks to this good conduct being able to take their eggs, rich in proteins, and milk in order to produce homemade dairy products.
It must be observed that vegeterianism, in order to be effective, must go hand in hand with localization. Vegeterianism ought not to be the result of a choice customized to the individual by industrial capitalism entitled to uproot local communities for the mass production of now stylish vegeterian staple crops such as quinoa. Rather, vageterianism is a deep-green philosophy par excellence that calls for the re-localization of food production and the end of the human/animal hierarchary, which tends to take on but androcentric overtones as it is men over women who enjoy successive bites of meat!
